According to IMDb, a new Scooby-Doo series is in the works that promises to reinvent the beloved franchise from the ground up. Details are still scarce, but the word "reinvention" alone is enough to set the fancasting world on fire.
Why This Is a Big Deal for Fancasting Fans
Scooby-Doo is one of those rare properties that has survived every era of pop culture — Saturday morning cartoons, live-action blockbusters, animated reboots, and everything in between. A true reinvention opens up genuinely exciting questions: Are we talking a darker, horror-leaning take on Mystery Inc.? A grounded coming-of-age drama? A meta-comedy that winks at 55 years of franchise history? The creative direction will matter enormously when it comes to casting, and right now, literally anything is on the table.
That ambiguity is actually a fancaster's paradise. Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy are archetypes flexible enough to be reinterpreted in dozens of directions — which means the debate over who should play them is wide open and genuinely consequential.
What myCast Fans Are Already Saying
The myCast community hasn't been sleeping on this one. Across three separate fan-cast stories, voters have already started staking out their picks for the Mystery Inc. gang — and the variety of choices on offer reflects just how many different visions fans have for what a reinvented Scooby-Doo could look like.
In the most expansive fan cast on the platform, the Scooby-Doo story with 69 roles, fans have put together a genuinely compelling ensemble. Dacre Montgomery — best known for his brooding turn in Stranger Things — is the current pick for Fred Jones, which says a lot about the direction some fans want to take the character. Gone is the dopey, ascot-wearing leader; in his place, a Fred with actual edge. Sadie Sink has a vote for Daphne Blake, a pairing that alongside Montgomery would give the series a distinctly Stranger Things-adjacent energy. Auliʻi Cravalho is the pick for Velma Dinkley — a genuinely inspired choice that would bring warmth and sharp comedic timing to the gang's resident genius. And Noah Jupe rounds out the core four as Shaggy, leaning into a more naturalistic, anxious-teen reading of the character rather than the stoner-comedy version audiences have grown used to. Notably, — who has voiced Scooby-Doo since 2002 — earns a vote here too, a nod to the idea that some things perhaps shouldn't be reinvented.